Newark TSA decides profiling Muslims is just too hard

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NEWARK — A special unit of airport screeners, charged with detecting suspicious behavior, engaged in racial profiling so frequently at Newark Liberty International Airport that their resentful colleagues called them "Mexican hunters," according to an internal federal report.

Officially known as behavior detection officers, or BDOs, the screeners were supposed to focus on nervous, erratic or evasive gestures or speech and other indicators to single out passengers for extra scrutiny, but instead they concentrated on whether Mexican or Dominican passengers had proper visas or passport stamps, the report said — all at the direction of their managers.

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The report said one of the managers, George Schultz, instructed officers to manipulate a point system used to assess whether a passenger’s behavior merits referral to law enforcement officers, or LEOs.

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"Schultz was basically telling all of us to go look for illegal aliens and make up behaviors to equal six points, which would result in a LEO call," BDO William Tappen stated for the report.

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/06/report_newark_airport_screener.html

[Usui Takumi 1,562]

NEWARK — A special unit of airport screeners, charged with detecting suspicious behavior, engaged in racial profiling so frequently at Newark Liberty International Airport that their resentful colleagues called them "Mexican hunters," according to an internal federal report.

Officially known as behavior detection officers, or BDOs, the screeners were supposed to focus on nervous, erratic or evasive gestures or speech and other indicators to single out passengers for extra scrutiny, but instead they concentrated on whether Mexican or Dominican passengers had proper visas or passport stamps, the report said — all at the direction of their managers.

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The report said one of the managers, George Schultz, instructed officers to manipulate a point system used to assess whether a passenger’s behavior merits referral to law enforcement officers, or LEOs.

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"Schultz was basically telling all of us to go look for illegal aliens and make up behaviors to equal six points, which would result in a LEO call," BDO William Tappen stated for the report.

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/06/report_newark_airport_screener.html

Have you seen the Singapore security mock up? The total recall style one? I could see a program analyzing a passenger over a 30ft walk to determine body movement. The sensitivity to odd movements could be turned way up in the high security tunnel.

[Sofiyya 1,687]

Your title is misleading. The article says nothing about Muslims, just that the TSA workers were not supposed to be racial profiling anyone.

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Your title is misleading.

No $hit!

[Sofiyya 1,687]

No $hit!

Au contraire. The sh!t is pretty deep.

[Peikko 1,575]

NEWARK — A special unit of airport screeners, charged with detecting suspicious behavior, engaged in racial profiling so frequently at Newark Liberty International Airport that their resentful colleagues called them "Mexican hunters," according to an internal federal report.

Officially known as behavior detection officers, or BDOs, the screeners were supposed to focus on nervous, erratic or evasive gestures or speech and other indicators to single out passengers for extra scrutiny, but instead they concentrated on whether Mexican or Dominican passengers had proper visas or passport stamps, the report said — all at the direction of their managers.

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The report said one of the managers, George Schultz, instructed officers to manipulate a point system used to assess whether a passenger's behavior merits referral to law enforcement officers, or LEOs.

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"Schultz was basically telling all of us to go look for illegal aliens and make up behaviors to equal six points, which would result in a LEO call," BDO William Tappen stated for the report.

http://www.nj.com/ne...t_screener.html

What they should be doing is normal and correct profiling procedure that actually produces results. What they were doing was stupid and illegal, what a #######.